Font Design Easy Kerning and Side Bearings in Glyphs App Tutorial - How to Make a font

Font Deign Easy Kerning and Side Bearings in Glyphs App Tutorial - How to Make a font

One of the most frustrating and difficult parts of font design for me was kerning. But with these techniques, it really helped me to space and kern my fonts quickly without tying myself in kerning pairs knots!

Making certain glyphs a master makes changing multiple side bearings on many glyphs super quick and consistent.

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[AdamGreasley]

KERNING!!!! no one likes doing it!
I hope this video helps you to kern quicker so you can get on with making more fonts.
Not sure why I look so bored... Kerning is not the most exciting aspect of font design but I shouldn't use that as an excuse 😆
Anyway... enjoy, let me know how you get on.

[jakewilliams]

Yep! Did the same thing, wasted hours trying to kern every pair, before finding this video. Thank you! This is going to save me hours and hours of work.

[lucylambert]

Designing my first font and this was such a lifesaver!!! also very good explanation of things in simple terms

[eleazarhernandezjr]

This is awesome. I just got into Glyphs and I have found your video to be invaluable! I have watched it five or six times already and I'll keep watching it until I get this down. Thank you!!

[stacyterry]

THANK YOU SO It’s taken me hours upon hours to get my spacing right. Super helpful! 💪🏼

[robertino]

This is so helpful and easy to follow. Thank you Adam.

[thatomasilo]

Your a life saver my guy after looking and looking came across a shitty program called FontLab its sop over rated, i manafed to get my font done and it looks good, thank you Thato from South Africa.

[krishnapriya]

Thar's a awesome explanation I ever saw. Can I get to know the tool you are using in this vedio?

[pauljays]

Would you do a video on how to anchor diacritics in Glyphs?

[stevenwilson]

Brilliant idea, and I can see why this would be a huge pain to do manually, and even worse if you have extra fonts with accented characters and what-not. Yikes. It would be great if there could be some sort of scripted action to do this automagically for you.

[MrBrady]

Cool, thanks for the video! Do you find using the H and the O are enough for adding side bearings, or do you need to use other letters for that part of the process?

[stacyterry]

What are your thoughts on the plug-in KERN ON?